Robert Murphy Mayo

Robert Murphy Mayo (28 April 1836-29 March 1896) was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War and a member of the US House of Representatives (R-VA 1) from 4 March 1883 to 20 March 1884 (interrupting George Tankard Garrison's terms).

Biography
Robert Murphy Mayo was born in Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1836, and he worked as a teacher in Lexington before the American Civil War broke out; he also owned 9 male and 11 female slaves. When the American Civil War broke out, he became a Confederate States Army major and helped to raise the 47th Virginia Infantry, of which he later became colonel. He was wounded in the arm at the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862, and he was later accused of drunkenness and court-martialed on 10 September 1863. Mayo became a lawyer after the war and served in the US House of Representatives from 1883 to 1884 as a member of the Readjuster Party. He resigned in 1884 when the state legislature claimed that his predecessor George Tankard Garrison had actually won re-election, and Mayo instead served in the House of Delegates. He died in 1896.